Re: [syndication] OCS Version 0.5 draft

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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Morten Frederiksen <mof-syndication@mfd-consult.dk> writes:

> Hi (Ian),
> 
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 15:49, you wrote:
> > > WRT the Alias module, I see no mention of the alias element in the
> > > example?
> > Fixed - I hadn't uploaded the latest draft. I've had to renumber it
> > now so the Alias module is on version 0.2:
> > http://InternetAlchemy.org/ocs/modules/alias/0.2/
<snip/>

I can't help but think that the concept of an RSS feed is obsolete:

1.  We have ways to search for content on other peers via standard formats (SOAP
    over any binding (JXTA, BEEP, HTTP))

2.  The format is bloated... 5k or so per channel.  It just isn't scalable to
    millions of feeds

3.  We now have the mod_subscription spec [1] which can be used by RSS
    readers/aggregators to discover other RSS channels and with the mod_link
    spec one can link to additional RDF.

Put these things together and it doesn't make sense to lug around OCS.

The only argument I could respect is as a meta-format for the exchange of small
amounts of feeds between peers.  Then again maybe the mod_subscription spec
could take some hints and then do the same thing.

1. http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/subscription/

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